The seven magpies
"War has suspended ordinary life for the duration, sending 14-year-old Maureen Frazer's father to the front, and Maureen herself to a remote boarding school in a castle at the edge of the highlands. She arrives to find the rest of the Lower Fifth class have already bonded, Enid-Blyton fashion, around their Secret Seven society, leaving Maureen odd one out. She misses her beloved father and resents her mother who, after packing her off in the name...
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